Women, Peace and Security: Online Free Course

This free online course is a new module part of the "I Know Gender" online course. This module addresses the importance of promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women during conflict, peace operations and negotiations. After completing the module Women, Peace and Security, learners will be able to: 1) Recognize gender, peace and security issues and women's rights in armed conflict and humanitarian settings; 2) Identify the relevant Women, Peace and Security global policies and legal documents; 3) Identify suitable implementation mechanisms at the global, regional and national levels; 4) Recognize the roles and mandates of different UN entities and other actors in relation to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Training Type: Self-Paced
Target Audience: Open to all interested specifically United Nations System, Peace and Security personnel, Humanitarian Staff

Online Free Course in Web 2.0 and Social Media for Development

This course describes a wide range of social media tools that enhance the ways in which information is created and published, and which provide the means to collaborate and share resources online. It also describes how to take advantage of those tools for more effective networking, collaboration and exchange of knowledge.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at Individuals and institutions working for sustainable development looking to social media in the development context as a means to connect geographically dispersed work teams, to strengthen coordination and knowledge sharing, and for creating opportunities for engagement, participation and skills sharing.

Online Free Course on covering development for African Journalists

By Albany CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Description: This free online course on covering development for African Journalists will get the Participants learn 1) how to identify good development stories; Key Issues in reporting agriculture, mining and the environment; Human capital: Development journalism and education, health and social welfare; Using data to enrich development stories; Reporting on the role of government, international organizations and foreign aid
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: African journalists

Online Free Course on Creativity

by LaurMG CC BY-SA 3.0

Description: This free online course on Creativity is designed to explore several factors that stimulate and inhibit creativity in individuals, teams, and organizations. In each session we will focus on a different variable related to creativity, such as framing problems, challenging assumptions, and creative teams

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course in Citizen Journalism and Empowerment for Women Leaders

This online free training provides critical training in new media, citizen journalism and empowerment to this new generation of grassroots women leaders driving the revolution for change. Over five-months, thirty women are given the skills and knowledge they need to actualize and vocalize their visions for themselves, their communities and the world.
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Women from around the world

Online Free Course on Writing in the Sciences

Description: This free online course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, and issues in publication and peer review

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course in Economics 101 for Journalists

This free online training webinar June 26-28 will demystify economics for business journalists. In just one hour on each of three days with her, you will get a grounding in how the overall economy works, plus specific insights into the employment and housing markets. And beyond the basics, you’ll see how to apply what you’ve learned to finding fresh story ideas on the economy in your local area.

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Journalists worldwide

Online Free Course in Digital Libraries, Repositories and Documents

This free online course covers the processes relevant to the creation and management of digital libraries and repositories, including digital file formats, metadata management, database management and the preservation of digital information. The total curriculum consists of 40 lessons, ranging from approximately 20 to 45 minutes duration, grouped into eight units, for a total of about 24 hours of self-paced instruction.
Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at broad range of users who are involved in the creation, management and dissemination of documents in an electronic environment. The group of potential users may include library managers, publication officers, communication specialists, archivists, information specialists, system managers, content developers and general management.

Online Free Course in Introduction to Medical Terminology

This free online course aims to introduce the basic building blocks of medical terminology. It is divided into four topics, and each topic takes about 1 hour to complete. The topics introduce you to the basics you need to understand and use medical terminology, and examples are used to illustrate the concepts covered. There are activities and quizzes throughout the topics to help you reinforce your learning and to let you practice identifying, analysing and building medical terms. There is a word list in the useful resources section containing all the terms covered in this course that you can download and print. The list has spaces for you to add other useful medical terms that you encounter.
Training Type: Self-Paced,

Target Audience: anyone wanting to learn the basics of medical terminology, including medical and nursing students; students studying for professions allied to medicine; those interested in a career as a medical secretary or transcriptionist; students whose first language is not English who are interested in studying medicine in an English-speaking country; and anyone who is interested in understanding more about the language of medicine.

Online Free Course on Minority Rights and Advocacy

Description: This free online course contains information about minority rights and advocacy.  

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course in Project Management

This online free on Project Management Course provides young people with both the skills and resources needed to effectively plan, monitor, evaluate and manage local projects. Participants learn how to conduct a needs assessment, create a baseline, manage resources and identify long-term desired outcomes.
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in Political Advocacy

This free online on Political Advocacy Course trains participants to create and implement a political advocacy campaign that holds their governments or local institutions accountable to commitments they have made on youth and HIV/AIDS. The course requires participants to create an action plan that researches government (local, national, or international) commitments to date, establish subsequent solutions that focus on adult-youth interaction, monitor the solutions as they relate to the original action plan, evaluate the outcomes, and more.
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in 21 Steps to Building a Web Business

This free online course covers the skills and techniques needed to create a successful online Web business. It describes the process of developing an online business in a non-technical and step-by-step manner. This course will teach you how to build a website in 21 days. It will help you understand the functionality of a website, teach you to how to properly upload web-friendly files to the web, and how to use FileZilla to successfully upload your website online. Understand important concepts such as choosing the correct domain name and how to host your account. You will also learn new techniques on how to make money from your online web business.
Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested. The course is ideal for those who've always wanted to create an online Web business but lack the skills or knowledge to do it.

Online Free Fundamentals of Project Management

After completing this online free course you will understand the history of project management and learn from examples of interviews with project managers. This course will teach you the process of the systems development life cycle to help identify problems and create solutions in each stage of the projects life including planning, analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. You will gain a good knowledge of project management methodology. You will be able to identify and understand the most important tools used by a project manager including GANTT charts, PERT Diagrams, estimating activity time, scheduling, expediting and Critical Path Method. You will gain a good knowledge of program, system, technical, user, paper-based, electronic and media project management documentation. You will learn about different issues that can occur when an information system is changed or a new sytem is introduced.

Online Free Course in Covering Global Religious Conflict

This online free course will get the Participants learn how to 1) Explore coverage of religious conflict around the world, sharing a wide range of professional approaches. 2) Examine up-to-the-minute case studies of religious conflict from the Middle East to West Africa to Europe to the United States. The seminar will be flexible in responding to the latest news related to religion demanding the world’s attention. Several examples of international reporting and online conversations will challenge participants to become the best in the field in understanding and writing about religious tensions. 3) Receive objective tools for covering conflict through access to sources and the latest international research. Online tutorials will offer step-by-step help to guide reporters to relevant data.

Online Free Course in Citizen Journalism and Empowerment for Women Leaders

This online free training provides critical training in new media, citizen journalism and empowerment to this new generation of grassroots women leaders driving the revolution for change. Over five-months, thirty women are given the skills and knowledge they need to actualize and vocalize their visions for themselves, their communities and the world.
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Women from around the world

Online Free Course in Interfaith Conflict Resolution

This online free course is designed to enhance the peacemaking capacities of individuals and faith-based organizations by focusing on objectives, methods, and best practices of interfaith dialogue, a form of religious peacemaking increasingly recognized for its relevance to 21st Century conflict. The course applies general principles of faith-based peacemaking to two case studies, highlighting interfaith peacemaking efforts between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, as well as the role that various faith communities played in helping to bring and end to the 36-year internal armed conflict in Guatemala.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in Conflict Analysis

This online free course presents an introduction to the subject of conflict analysis, illustrating analytical tools used, with reference to two extended case studies, the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda. After completing this course, you will gain proficiency in the following skills:

• Classifying phases of conflict using the curve of conflict
• Identifying interventions appropriate to different phases of a conflict
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the curve of conflict
• Generating a thorough set of characteristics for describing conflict using an analytical framework
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the framework
• Analyzing unfamiliar conflicts using terms and concepts from the curve and framework

Online Free Course in Management of Electronic Documents

 

This online free course offers a series of lessons on electronic document management which introduce basic concepts and describe specific workflows and topics. The lessons include relevant resources and additional reading. Learners can also consult a glossary specific to the module and search within the course materials for specific terms.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at a broad range of users who are, or will be, involved in the creation, management and dissemination of documents primarily in an electronic environment. The module is primarily targeted at users based in institutions for agricultural development, research, education and extension.

Online Free Course in Investing in Information for Development

This online free course provides the knowledge and awareness required to support individuals responsible for formulating improved information management strategies within their organizations and through partnerships.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at Policymakers; Senior managers; Information managers; and Trainers working in the governmental agencies (Agriculture, Education, Information and/or Planning Ministries); academic and research institutions; universities; extension organizations; documentation, publishing, and IT centres; non-governmental organizations; and international organizations.